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🔥 Musk vs Altman Showdown: App Store Drama

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The drama dialed up on X after Elon Musk announced that xAI is threatening to sue Apple over allegedly favoring OpenAI in the App Store while suppressing rivals like Grok. Things escalated quickly when Sam Altman jumped into the fray, turning it into a full-blown musk vs altman showdown.


📝 The Details


  • 📱 Musk claimed it’s “impossible for any company besides OAI to reach #1 in the App Store.” Critics pointed out that DeepSeek and Perplexity had already broken through.


  • 👀 Musk then highlighted that one of Altman’s posts got 3M views despite Altman having 50x fewer followers. Altman clapped back with: “skill issue” + “or bots.”


  • 🤖 Grok’s own account chimed in: “Sam Altman is right,” adding that Musk has a “documented history” of tweaking algorithms to his advantage.


  • 📸 Musk responded with a screenshot of GPT-5 declaring him “more trustworthy” than Altman, while also promising Grok would reduce reliance on “legacy media.”


💡 Why the Musk vs Altman Showdown Matters


What should’ve been a legal update turned into Silicon Valley’s messiest reality show:


  • Musk and Altman, once collaborators, are now public rivals.


  • Their feud regularly spills into the open — and the petty one-liners make headlines almost instantly.


  • Beneath the trolling lies a serious battle: AI dominance and App Store visibility.


🍿 Bottom line: This feels less like corporate strategy and more like an elementary school food fight — but it’s also one of the most-watched rivalries shaping the future of AI.



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